1. “Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times”
2. “Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work’s conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.”
3. “Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?”
4. “Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.”
5. “The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.”
6. “Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the color which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.”
7. “What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.”
8. “We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.”
9. “Religions die slowly.”
10. “Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance… We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.”
